Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most telling attacks centered on the President's tax proposals. House Ways & Means Chairman Harold Knutson, who already has his own $5.6 billion tax-reduction bill on the fire, cried: "My God, I didn't know inflation had gone that far. Tom Pendergast paid only $2 a vote and now Truman proposes to pay $40." Cracked House Majority Leader Charles Halleck: "What, no mule...
...York, Pollster George Gallup reported, Wallace would now get between 13% and 18% of the total vote, depending on which Republican ran against Harry Truman.* In Massachusetts, a Boston Globe straw vote gave Wallace 11% of the total and made the state "a 50-50 proposition" for the G.O.P. for the first time since Calvin Coolidge...
Quite obviously, not all of these straw voters were Communists. Wallace could apparently count on a sizable bloc of voters who believed in a protest vote-and to hell with the consequences. The real test would be their willingness to translate their polled opinion on to the ballot next November...
...When the vote was finally taken, and the result announced-181 to 74 for the bill's passage-the comrades cried a last "Viva General Luis Carlos Prestes!" and "Viva Russia!" A few minutes later, at Catete Palace, President Eurico Caspar Dutra signed 900-A in the presence of top army brass who had reportedly strong-armed the bill through. Gloated the pro-government A Noite: "The beauty of it is . . . that within the law we were able to put the Communists outside...
...where old friends and literary lights gave him a wire-recorder (to record his balladry); the other in his native Galesburg, Ill., where Knox College gave him a cake and Sandburg gave an address. The Lincoln man cleared up a point about himself: "My father was . . . a Republican. I voted for Eugene Debs and Hoover, and if Eisenhower is nominated will vote for him. I am an independent or maybe a mugwump...